UFO Info Week-End

When she did not arrive the friend contacted Heather’s father who called the police

When she did not arrive, the friend contacted Heather’s father, who called the police.Heather’s body was discovered the next day a short distance from the arranged meeting place by a 17-year-old family friend who was helping with the search, which also involved dogs and a helicopter.Detectives say the body was concealed but not buried and a detailed examination of the site and surrounding area was carried out.Yesterday, hundreds of flowers had been placed under a tree 50 yards away from the spot where she was found, including one with the attached message: “Goodnight Heather, a lovely girl – so much to give, taken away so tragically.”Close friend Shelley Barker, 17, said: “Heather was very well liked, she was friendly and cheerful and always smiling. She always had time for everyone.”Karen Hall, a 33-year-old family friend and neighbour, said her son Stefan had waved to Heather as she set off to meet her friend on Friday evening.She said: “Stefan knows Heather quite well, everyone did, so he waved and said hello She was by herself but seemed really happy She waved and shouted ‘hello’ back Heather was such a pretty girl and so full of life. No one can quite believe why anyone would want to hurt such a lovely girl. It is horrible to think something like this happened on our doorstep.”Detective Chief Inspector Peter Hall, leading the 50 officers involved in the investigation, said: “This was a young girl with her whole life ahead of her.

She has had that life taken away from her, and her family and friends. It is an awful crime against a defenceless girl and we are determined to catch the person responsible.”Police believe vital clues in the hunt for the killer may be held by local students celebrating their GCSE exam results. Groups of teenagers were known to have held impromptu celebrations in the woodland over the past few evenings and may have seen something suspicious.* A murder hunt was under way yesterday after a man was stabbed repeatedly in his own home by a gang of men.The victim, who has not yet been named, suffered severe wounds in the attack on Saturday night and was taken to North Manchester General Hospital where he later died. Police, who as yet have no motive for the killing, are appealing for witnesses.. Four members of a holidaymaking British family who died in a head-on road crash in the Irish Republic were named by police yesterday. Four members of a holidaymaking British family who died in a head-on road crash in the Irish Republic were named by police yesterday.
The dead were Eric Pickford, 45, his wife Gillian, 35, Emma Bintliff, 14, Mrs Pickford’s daughter by a previous marriage, and the couple’s son Simon, four. Another of their children, a boy aged six, remained critically ill in Cork’s University Hospital.The family came from Marple, Stockport, near Manchester and had arrived in Ireland on a car ferry for a holiday on Friday.Their Mitsubishi space-wagon vehicle collided with a lorry on the road between Mallow and Mitchelstown, County Cork, and both vehicles burst into flames seconds after the impact.

Customers from a nearby pub and people in following cars used fire extinguishers in a desperate rescue bid and hauled one child from the blazing wreckage after smashing a car window.The lorry driver received only minor injuries and also helped in vain efforts to reach the family. Irish police identified the dead and injured through a telephone number found in a handbag recovered from their vehicle.A senior Irish police officer said the scene of the crash was “devastating”.The family’s neighbours spoke of their shock at learning of the tragic crash which killed four members of the same family. Jane Hulmes, who lives next door but one to the Pickford’s home, said the news had devastated the local community.Gill, a school friend from Marple Bridge secondary school, was a housewife and “absolutely besotted” with her children, she said. Mrs Pickford’s eldest son, David, had stayed at home, having only recently received his GCSE results.. Thousands of firefighters, army conscripts and civilian volunteers battled to keep deadly wildfires under control yesterday, as three Greek regions remained in a state of emergency, authorities said. Thousands of firefighters, army conscripts and civilian volunteers battled to keep deadly wildfires under control yesterday, as three Greek regions remained in a state of emergency, authorities said.
Seven people were burned alive or suffocated and dozens of houses were razed this week as gale-force winds drove blazes across rugged areas of rural Greece.A blaze at the Menalos mountains, about 115 miles south-west of Athens, was burning out of control yesterdaywhile five other major fires had been contained, the fire service said.About 200 fires broke out on Thursday and Friday, adding to the record destruction of Greek forests this year.”It is like a wartime operation,” said Public Order Minister Michalis Chrisohoidis.On the island of Corfu, several villages were evacuated early yesterday before the flames were beaten back.